Composition of matter.



A'IHELSTAN E. GOOCH, OF

TUBING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, 1\

UNITED STAliES PnTENT OFFICE.

CAMPELLO, M A SSAOH Y., A GORPORATIONOF NEW YORK.

COMPOSITION OF MATTER.

Application filed June 12. 1907.

Specification of Letters Patent.

2 to 3 lbs. -1 gallon.

Ground cork Liquid starch glue These ingredients are thoroughly intermingled by agitation.

I prefer to use class known commercially as apparatine' and preferably of a specific gravity of 1.2. Of course, the proportions set forth are Variable within reasonable limits, the quantity of liquid starch glue depending upon the size and quality of the cork grains.

In using the above named composition, it is applied to able means such as a spatula, like, and allowed to dry and harden.

about two hours, the mixture becomes hard composition cona liquid starch glue of the 3 hours when exposed to the air to form with the inner soles of shoes by suit trowel or the 1 After 1 affected by moisture, but forms a and flexible, and when completely dry is not hornlike el stic addition to the leather sole.

.he use of liquid starch gums and glues together with ground cork. etc. provides a filler for the inner .soles which is much cheaper than the present fillers used, and is in all respects their equal.

I am aware that rubber dissolved in bisulfid of carbon or in other solvents is used as a binder for the cork. Such rubber eements, however, are highly inflammable, disagreeable and dangerous to handle, and much more expensive than starch glues and the like, as set forth.

I. claim The herein described composition of matter, or filler, for reinforcing the leather soles of welted shoes, consisting of a mixture of ground cork 2 to 3 lbs., and apparatine 1 gallon, said mixture drying within a few said cork a hornlike. elastic addition to the leather soles.

Signed at Brockton 1n the county of Plymouth and State of' Massachusetts this eighth day of June A. I). 1907.

. X'IIIELSTAN E. GOOCH.

Witnesses:

l3. FRANK llANseoM, A. l.. MEG.-\'IIILIN.

USETTS, ASSIGNOR '1 0 THE ARABOL MANUFAC- 

